Gerry Rafferty Quotes

#1. The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Rob Sheffield

#2. My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,

Sally Gardner

#3. Another crazy day where you drink the night away and forget about everything.

Gerry Rafferty

#4. At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

Tim Hunt

#5. I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Gerry Rafferty

#6. Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

Gerry Rafferty

#7. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

John Irving

#8. The gusty wind Khazri swept through Baku, scouring every crevice, leaving behind air so pristine that it sparkled in the ginger sun like my mama's favorite crystal vase.

Ella Leya

#9. Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurier

#10. There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

Gerry Rafferty

#11. No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.

Gerry Rafferty

#12. Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.

Margaret Atwood

#13. In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is to continue to write music, which helps me to evolve in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others.

Gerry Rafferty

#14. The spiritual road runs both ways.

Mischa V Alyea

#15. This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

Gerry Rafferty

#16. Every need got an ego to feed.

Bob Marley

#17. Carton and sleep in my bed." "Maybe I can arrest him for

Janet Evanovich

#18. You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.

Gerry Rafferty

#19. If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.

Gerry Rafferty

#20. The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell of it and the deepened sense of solitude it brought.

Mary Balogh

#21. The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

Gerry Rafferty

#22. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Dorothy Wordsworth